Original Caption Released with Image: This colorful image from NASA's WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) is a view of an area of the sky over 12 times the size of the full Moon on the border of the constellations Sagittarius and Corona Australis. Two types of star clusters are visible in the image.
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NGC 7727 galaxy by Hubble space telescope
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NGC7479 Barred Spiral in Pegasus Amateur Image
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An en:ultraviolet image of NGC 7479 taken with en:GALEX. Credit: GALEX/en:NASA. http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/nph-imgdata?objid=53018&objname=NGC%207479
NGC 7257 barred spiral galaxy
Stucture of NGC 6782
NGC 6782
A en:Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image of NGC 6782 made from images taken on June 22, 2000 and June 9, 2001. Credit: HST/en:NASA/en:ESA.
NGC660, a polar ring galaxy
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NGC 660 barred spiral galaxy
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Galaxy NGC 6384
An en:ultraviolet image of en:NGC 5398 taken with en:GALEX. Credit: GALEX/en:NASA.
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Galaxy NGC 5652
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This ultraviolet image of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 5398 was taken during June 7th 2003 as part of the GALEX nearby galaxy survey. This galaxy is located 60 Million light years away from the Earth. This picture is a combination of GALEX images taken with the FUV (colored blue) and NUV detectors (colored red).
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NGC 5005 spiral galaxy
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The pale spiral galaxy NGC 4921 as photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope.
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NGC 4725 spiral galaxy
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Galaxy NGC 461
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2MASS-Image of Galaxy NGC 4394
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NGC 4319
NGC 4314
NGC 4274 barred spiral galaxy
NGC 4144 by Hubble space telescope
NGC 4144 galaxy by GALEX
NGC 3953 galaxy
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NGC 3513 galaxy by GALEX
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NGC 3344 galaxy
Galaxy NGC 3344
NGC 3079
Galaxy NGC 3079
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the lumpy bubble of hot gas located at the center of the NGC 3079 galaxy's disk. Astronomers suspect that the bubble is being blown by
A Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image of NGC 2903.
NGC 2903
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NGC 2903 galaxy on GALEX sky survey
This photo was taken with my backyard telescope in Kalkaska, MI in April of 2007. It is a visible light image taken with a Canon 350D camera modified for astrophotography
NGC 2787
NGC 278 galaxy
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NGC 253, also known as the Sculptor Galaxy, is the brightest of the Sculptor Group of galaxies, found in the constellation of the same name, and lying approximately 13 million light-years from Earth. The Sculptor Galaxy is known as a starburst galaxy for its current high rate of star formation, one result of which is its superwind, a stream energetic material spewing out from the center of the galaxy out into space. The purple light comes from that frenzy of star formation, which originally began 30 million years ago, while the yellowish color is created by dust lit up by young, massive stars.
NGC 253 is one of the closest galaxies to our own. It is a bright spiral that lies about 13 million light-years from Earth in the southern constellation of Sculptor and is noted for being a starburst galaxy with very vigorous star formation and very dusty spiral arms. In the infrared, the rich dust clouds in the galaxy’s spiral arms become nearly transparent and a whole host of cool red stars that are otherwise invisible can be seen. The VISTA infrared images were taken through Y, Z, J, Ks and narrowband filters. The field of view is about 38 by 25 arcminutes.
This photo shows a sky field around the Spiral Galaxy NGC 253 (Type Sc) seen nearly edge-on. It is located in the southern constellation Sculptor at a distance of about 8 million light-years. The image is the sum of five 5-min exposures through a blue (B-band) optical filtre. They were slightly offset with respect to each other so that the small gaps between the eight CCD's of the mosaic are no longer visible. This image also shows the faint trails of 2 artificial satellites. Many of the quite numerous and small, slightly fuzzy objects are undoubtedly globular clusters of NGC 253. The image processing consisted of de-biassing, flat-fielding, and removal (by interpolation) of some bad columns. The full-width-half-maximum (FWHM) of stellar images is about 1.0 arcsec. It was rebinned (2x2) to 4kx4k size and sampling 0.48 arcsec/pixel.North is up and East is left. ID: phot-02a-99 Press Release: 02/99 Object: NGC 253 Telescope: 2.2m Instrument: WFI Size: 4000x3917 Credit: ESO
NGC 253 Galaxy in Sculptor
NGC253, Sculptor Galaxy
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A Hubble Space Telescope (HST) close up view of NGC 253.
Close-up of the central regions of the starburst galaxy NGC 253. This image is based on data obtained with the NACO instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) and the ACS on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Thanks to the VLT's sharp eye, astronomers have identified 37 bright regions, a threefold increase on previous results. These regions are probably very active nurseries that contain as many as one hundred thousand young, massive stars bursting from their dusty cocoons. The field of view is 15 arcseconds.
Measuring 70 000 light-years across and lying 13 million light-years away, the nearly edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 253 is revealed here in an image from the Wide Field Imager (WFI) of the MPG/ESO 2.2 m telescope at the La Silla Observatory. The image is based on data obtained through four different filters (R, V, H-alpha and OIII). North is up and East to the left. The field of view is 30 arcminutes.
Galaxy NGC 253
A portion of the spiral galaxy the Sculptor Galaxy (NGC 253) as viewed by the Hubble Space Telescope. NGC 253 is ablaze with the light from thousands of young, blue stars. The spiral galaxy is undergoing intense star formation. The image demonstrates the sharp
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This picture of the spiral galaxy NGC 247 was taken using the Wide Field Imager (WFI) at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile. NGC 247 is thought to lie about 11 million light-years away in the constellation of Cetus (The Whale). It is one of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way and a member of the Sculptor Group.
Galaxy NGC 247
NGC 1672 galaxy by Hubble/GALEX
View of the nearby barred spiral galaxy NGC 1672 by NASA Hubble Space Telescope.
NGC 1672 galaxy by GALEX
NGC 1512
ABOUT THIS IMAGE: The red (1.875 microns) moves slightly farther into the infrared region. Image taken by HST's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS). Object Name: NGC 1512 Image Type: Astronomical
ABOUT THIS IMAGE: The orange (8269 Г…) depicts near-infrared light, which cannot be seen by the human eye. Image taken by HST's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. Object Name: NGC 1512 Image Type: Astronomical
ABOUT THIS IMAGE: The yellow (6590 Г…) is visible light. Image taken by HST's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. Object Name: NGC 1512 Image Type: Astronomical
ABOUT THIS IMAGE: The green (5454 Г…) is visible light. Image taken by HST's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. Object Name: NGC 1512 Image Type: Astronomical
ABOUT THIS IMAGE: The blue (3327 Г…) denotes the near-ultraviolet region of the spectrum. Image taken by HST's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. Object Name: NGC 1512 Image Type: Astronomical
The NASA Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 snapped this wide view of the nearby barred spiral galaxy NGC 1512. A wispy bar of material can barely be seen slicing vertically through the galaxy. The bar is funneling gas to the heart of the galaxy, fueling a ring of star birth. Blue-colored stars along the galaxy's outer edge trace the grand spiral arms.
NGC 1241 (right), NGC 1242 (left) galaxies by GALEX
Almost-true colour composite based on three images made with the multi-mode VIMOS instrument on the 8.2-m Melipal (Unit Telescope 3) of ESO's Very Large Telescope. They were taken on the night of December 9-10, 2004, in the presence of Ricardo Lagos who was the President of the Republic of Chile from 2000 until 2006. ID: phot-35d-04 Press Release: 28/04 Object: NGC 1097 Telescope: UT3/Melipal Instrument: VIMOS Size: 2296x2592 Credit: ESO
The left image shows the same central region as seen in the J-Ks colour. It clearly shows the nucleus, the central spiral arms extending up to 1,300 light-years from the centre, and the star-forming ring. The right image shows the same but after a masking process has been applied to suppress the central stellar light of the galaxy. The central spiral arms are now seen as dark channels, some extending up to the star-forming ring. North is up and East is to the left. ID: phot-33b-05 Press Photo: ESO 33/05 Object: NGC 1097 Telescope: UT4/Yepun Instrument: NACO Size: 2026x1046 Credit: ESO
Colour-composite image of the central 5,500 light-years wide region of the spiral galaxy NGC 1097, obtained with the NACO adaptive optics on the VLT. More than 300 star forming regions - white spots in the image - are distributed along a ring of dust and gas in the image. At the centre of the ring there is a bright central source where the active galactic nucleus and its super-massive black hole are located. The image was constructed by stacking J- (blue), H- (green), and Ks-band (red) images. North is up and East is to the left. The field of view is 24 x 29 arcsec2, i.e. less than 0.03% the size of the full moon! ID: phot-33a-05 Press Photo: ESO 33/05 Object: NGC 1097 Telescope: UT4/Yepun Instrument: NACO Size: 1467x1695 Credit: ESO
NGC 1097
Star forming region around NGC 1097's nucleus by Hubble Space Telescope
The image shows the same central region as seen in the J-Ks colour. It clearly shows the nucleus, the central spiral arms extending up to 1,300 light-years from the centre, and the star-forming ring. The right image shows the same but after a masking process has been applied to suppress the central stellar light of the galaxy. The central spiral arms are now seen as dark channels, some extending up to the star-forming ring. North is up and East is to the left.
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has imaged a wild creature of the dark — a coiled galaxy with an eye-like object at its center.The 'eye' at the center of the galaxy is actually a monstrous black hole surrounded by a ring of stars. In this color-coded infrared view from Spitzer, the area around the invisible black hole is blue and the ring of stars, white. The galaxy, called NGC 1097 and located 50 million light-years away, is spiral-shaped like our Milky Way, with long, spindly arms of stars. The black hole is huge, about 100 million times the mass of our sun, and is feeding off gas and dust, along with the occasional unlucky star. Our Milky Way's central black hole is tame in comparison, with a mass of a few million suns. The ring around the black hole is bursting with new star formation. An inflow of material toward the central bar of the galaxy is causing the ring to light up with new stars. And, the galaxy's red spiral arms and the swirling spokes seen between the arms show dust heated by newborn stars. Older populations of stars scattered through the galaxy are blue. The fuzzy blue dot to the left, which appears to fit snugly between the arms, is a companion galaxy. Other dots in the picture are either nearby stars in our galaxy, or distant galaxies. This image was taken during Spitzer's cold mission, before it ran out of liquid coolant. The observatory's warm mission is ongoing, with two infrared channels operating at about 30 degrees Kelvin (-406 degrees Fahrenheit).
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The barred spiral galaxy Messier 91
Spiral Galaxy Messier 109 in Ursa Major
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The barred spiral galaxy Messier 109
Messier 9 with amateur telescope
Messier 109 (M109, NGC 3992) - barred spiral galaxy in Ursa Major
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Messier 108 by Hubble Space Telescope
Messier 108 HST image over GALEX background
Messier 108 by GALEX
The spiral galaxy Messier 108
M108 in Ursa Major
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This image of galaxy NGC 3351, located approximately 30 million light-years away in the constellation Leo was captured by the Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxy Survey (SINGS) Legacy Project using the telescope's Infrared Array Camera (IRAC).
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Messier 95 spiral galaxy, 24 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, AZ.
The barred spiral galaxy Messier 95
M95 galaxy (NGC 3351)
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This is a composite image of NGC 1068, one of the nearest and brightest galaxies containing a rapidly growing super-massive black hole. The X-ray images and spectra obtained using Chandra's High Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer show that a strong wind is being driven away from the centre of NGC 1068 at a rate of about a million miles per hour. This wind is likely generated as surrounding gas is accelerated and heated as it swirls toward the black hole. A portion of the gas is pulled into the black hole, but some of it is blown away. High energy X-rays produced by the gas near the black hole heat the ouflowing gas, causing it to glow at lower X-ray energies. X-ray data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory are shown in red, optical data from the Hubble Space Telescope in green and radio data from the Very Large Array in blue. The spiral structure of NGC 1068 is shown by the X-ray and optical data, and a jet powered by the central super-massive black hole is shown by the radio data.
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Messier 77: The Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 1068
Messier 77 in Cetus
M77 - Johnson RGB-composite
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NGC 4579, Messier 58
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The spiral galaxy Messier 58
An en:infrared image of M 58 by the en:Spitzer Space Telescope Credit: SIRTF/en:NASA/en:JPL.
M58 (NGC 4579) galaxy
NGC 206 star cloud
The tangled arms of the Pinwheel galaxy, otherwise known as Messier 101, are decked out in red in this new infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The Pinwheel galaxy is located 27 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. It is what's called a flocculent spiral, which means that its spiral arms are not well defined. The red color shows the dust, while the blue glow around the galaxy is from starlight. In this infrared composite, blue indicates light with a wavelength of 3.6 microns, green corresponds to 4.5 microns, and red to 5.8 and 8.0 microns. The contribution from starlight (measured at 3.6 microns) has been subtracted from the 5.8- and 8-micron images to enhance the visibility of the dust features.
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Photo of the spiral galaxy Messier 101 (also named Pinwheel Galaxy or after the NGC catalog: NGC 5457) taken in Sommerholz, Austria using the following equipement:
Cutout of a photo of the spiral galaxy Messier 101 (also named Pinwheel Galaxy or after the NGC catalog: NGC 5457) taken in Sommerholz, Austria using the following equipement:
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The spiral galaxy Messier 101
This image is Hubble's view in visible light, the yellow component of this composite view. Most of this light comes from stars, and they trace the same spiral structure as the dust lanes.
The galaxy Messier 101 is a swirling spiral of stars, gas, and dust. Messier 101 is nearly twice as wide as our Milky Way galaxy. Spitzer's view, taken in infrared light, reveals the galaxy's delicate dust lanes as yellow-green filaments. Such dense dust clouds are where new stars can form. In this image, dust warmed by the light of hot, young stars glows red. The rest of the galaxy's hundreds of billions of stars are less prominent and form a blue haze. Astronomers can use infrared light to examine the dust clouds where stars are born.
This image shows Chandra's view in X-ray light. Sources of X-rays include million-degree gas, exploded stars, and material colliding around black holes.
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the galaxy Messier 101 (M101, also known as NGC 5457 and also nicknamed the Pinwheel Galaxy) lies in the northern circumpolar constellation, Ursa Major (The Great Bear), at a distance of 25 million light-years from Earth. This is one of the largest and most detailed photo of a spiral galaxy that has been released from Hubble. The galaxy's portrait is actually composed of 51 individual Hubble exposures, in addition to elements from images from ground-based photos. A high-res version with 15852 x 12392 pixels in jpg and tiff format is also available, see below for url
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ABOUT THIS IMAGE: This image of the spiral galaxy Messier 101 is a composite of views from the Spitzer Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, and Chandra X-ray Observatory. Each wavelength region shows different aspects of celestial objects and often reveals new objects that could not otherwise be studied. The red color shows Spitzer's view in infrared light. It highlights the heat emitted by dust lanes in the galaxy where stars can form. The yellow color is Hubble's view in visible light. Most of this light comes from stars, and they trace the same spiral structure as the dust lanes. The blue color shows Chandra's view in X-ray light. Sources of X-rays include million-degree gas, exploded stars, and material colliding around black holes. Such composite images allow astronomers to see how features seen in one wavelength match up with those seen in another wavelength. It's like seeing with a camera, night vision goggles, and X-ray vision all at once. Object Names: M101, NGC 4547, The Pinwheel Galaxy Image Type: Astronomical Credit: NASA, ESA, CXC, SSC, and STScI
The structural integrity of M101, or the Pinwheel Galaxy, is revealed in this classic image from GALEX. Unlike our closest large galactic neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, both young and old stars are evenly distributed along M101's tightly wound spiral arms. Blue shows the presence of hot, young stars that formed about 10 million years ago, and regions that glow yellow harbor older, cooler stars that are over 100-million years old. M101 stretches twice the diameter of our Milky Way galaxy, and is located approximately 27 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. Structural Integrity of the Pinwheel Galaxy This image of the Pinwheel Galaxy is a two-color composite, where far-ultraviolet light is blue, and near-ultraviolet light is red.
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Description: This Chandra image of M101 is one of the longest exposures ever obtained of a spiral galaxy in X-rays. The point-like sources include binary star systems containing black holes and neutron stars, and the remains of supernova explosions. Other sources of X-rays include hot gas in the arms of the galaxy and clusters of massive stars. These X-ray observations of M101 will be used to establish a valuable X-ray profile of a galaxy similar to the Milky Way. This will help astronomers better understand the evolutionary paths that produce black holes, and provide a baseline for interpreting the observations of distant galaxies.
constructed by Renseb, images of the individual colours were taken with the en:Isaac Newton Telescope on en:La Palma and the en:WIYN 0.9m telescope on en:Kitt Peak. en:Category:Galaxy images
Galassia Ngc 6946
NGC6946. NGC 6946 (Arp 29) is a face-on SAB(rs)cd galaxy in the constellation Cygnus. This classification refers to the presence of a small core with multiple well-defined arms (cd), with a poorly-developed bar across the middle (AB) and an inner confused ring (rs). Nearly twenty million light years from Earth, it is over seventy thousand light years across. Date: 1999. Technical information: Image taken using the Wide Field Camera on the Isaac Newton Telescope
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Kennicutt (U. of Ariz./Inst. of Astr., U. of Cambridge) and the SINGS Team Instrument: IRAC, Spitzer Space Telescope Wavelength: 3.6 (blue), 4.5 (green), 5.8-8.0 (red) microns
This picture of the nearby galaxy NGC 6744 was taken with the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at La Silla. The large spiral galaxy is similar to the Milky Way, making this image look like a picture postcard of our own galaxy sent from extragalactic space. The picture was created from exposures taken through four different filters that passed blue, yellow-green, red light, and the glow coming from hydrogen gas. These are shown in this picture as blue, green, orange and red, respectively.
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NGC 6744 galaxy by GALEX
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Spiral galaxy NGC 3982 displays numerous spiral arms filled with bright stars, blue star clusters, and dark dust lanes. It spans about 30000 light-years, lies about 60 million light-years from Earth and can be seen with a small telescope in the constellation of Ursa Major.
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Messier 106 by GALEX
Messier 106 (NGC 4258) galaxy. Composite of IR, x-ray, radio and visible light view (X-ray - blue, Optical - gold, IR - red, Radio - purple)
The Seyfert galaxy Messier 106
M106 and NGC 4217 in Canes Venatici Using 130mm APO and ST-4000XCM
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Location of SN 1979C in Messier 100
Messier 100, also known as NGC 4321, is one of the largest and brightest spiral galaxies in the sky, located at about 50 million light-years from us. A composite VRI image obtained on March 3, 2002. The individual exposures lasted 180 seconds, image quality 0.7 arcsec FWHM; field 7 x 7 arcmin2 ; North is up and East is left. ID: 09h-02 Press Release: 04/02 Object: M100 Telescope: UT3/Melipal Instrument: VIMOS Size: 1800x1802 Credit: ESO
Composite based on five images taken with FORS1 on Kueyen (VLT) by Dominique Naef, Eric Depagne and Chris Lidman (ESO). The images were taken through different filters: U, V, R, I, and a narrow-band filter centred on the H-alpha line. The exposure time is 60 seconds in the V, R and I filters, 3 minutes in the U-band and 5 minutes in the H-alpha filter. The field of view is 6.8 x 5.1 arcmin2. North is up and East is to the left. The final processing was done by Kristina Boneva, Haennes Heyer and Henri Boffin (ESO). ID: phot-08a-06 Press Release: ESO 08/06 Long Caption: http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/press-rel/pr-2006/phot-08-06.html Object: M100 Telescope: UT2/Kueyen Instrument: FORS1 Credit: ESO
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Messier 100 spiral galaxy in the Virgo Cluster, imaged using the 24 inch Schulman Foundation telescope on Mt. Lemmon, AZ.
The spiral galaxy M100
The spiral galaxy M100.
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Images of the spiral galaxy Messier_100 demonstrate the improvement in Hubble images after corrective optics were installed during Servicing Mission 1 in 1993.
This comparison image of the core of the galaxy M100 shows the dramatic improvement in Hubble Space Telescope's view of the universe after the first Hubble Servicing Mission in December 1993. The new image, taken with the second generation Wide Field and Planetary Camera (WFPC-2) installed during the STS-61 Hubble Servicing Mission, beautifully demonstrates that the camera's corrective optics compensate fully for the optical aberration in Hubble's primary mirror. With the new camera, the Hubble explored the universe with unprecedented clarity and sensitivity, and fulfilled its most important scientific objectives for which the telescope was originally built. Image on right: The core of the grand design spiral glazy M100, as imaged by WFPC-2 in its high-resolution channel. WRPC-2's modified optics corrected Hubble's previously blurry vision, allowing the telescope for the first time to cleanly resolve faint structures as small as 30 light-years across in a galaxy tens of millions of light-years away. The image was taken on December 31, 1993. Image on left: For comparison, a picture taken with a WFPC-1 camera in wide-field mode on November 27, 1993, just a few days prior to the STS-61 servicing mission. The effects of optical aberration in HST's 2.4-meter primary mirror blur starlight, smear out fine detail, and limit the telescope's ability to see faint structure. Both Hubble images were
This galaxy is Messier 100, also known as NGC 4321, which was discovered in the 18th century. About 55 million light-years from Earth, Messier 100 is part of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies and lies in the constellation of Coma Berenices (Berenice’s Hair, named after the ancient Egyptian queen Berenice II). The image was made in infrared light with the HAWK-I camera on ESO’s Very Large Telescope at Paranal Observatory in Chile. HAWK-I is one of the most powerful infrared imagers in the world, and this is one of the sharpest and most detailed pictures of this galaxy ever taken from Earth. The filters used were Y (shown here in blue), J (in cyan), H (in orange), and K (in red). The field of view of the image is about 6.4 arcminutes.
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Similar in appearance to our own Milky Way, Messier 100 is a grand spiral galaxy that presents an intricate structure, with a bright core and two prominent arms. The galaxy harbours numerous young and hot massive stars as well as extremely hot regions of ionised hydrogen. Two smaller arms are seen emerging from the centre and reaching towards the larger spiral arms. The galaxy, located 60 million light-years away, is slightly larger than the Milky Way, with a diameter of about 120 000 light-years. A supernova was discovered in M100 on 4 February 2006. Named SN 2006X, it is the 5th supernova to have been found in M100 since 1900. This image is based on data acquired with the 1.5 m Danish telescope at the ESO La Silla Observatory in Chile, through three filters (B: 1390 s, V: 480 s, R: 245 s). The supernova is the brighter of the two stars seen just to the lower right of the galaxy centre. ID: ESO-M100 Size: 1879x1955 Credit: ESO/IDA/Danish 1.5 m/R. Gendler, J.-E. Ovaldsen, C. C. Thöne and C. Féron
Comparison between two images of Messier 100, taken in March 2002 with the VIMOS instrument on Melipal (VLT) and in February 2006 with FORS1 on Kueyen (VLT). The difference in colours comes from the different filters used. The supernova SN 2006X is clearly present in the FORS1 image as the bright object in the middle, just above the lower main spiral arm. It is not seen in the VIMOS image.
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The spiral galaxy Messier 96
Messier 96 in Leo with Amateur Telescope
Messier 95 and Messier 96 in visible light. Credit: Scott Anttila. See http://www.anttlersoptics.com/Canonphotos/AnttlersM95-m96.jpg .
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Messier 90 galaxy
The Seyfert galaxy Messier 90
This image of a well-known spiral galaxy, Messier 83, was prepared by superposing three CCD frames from this data release that are now available in the archive. This galaxy is located in the southern constellation Hydra (The Water-Snake) and is also known as NGC 5236; the distance is about 15 million light-years. The spiral structure resembles that of the Milky Way Galaxy in which we live, but Messier 83 also possesses a bar-like structure at the centre. This photo shows the central region of a beautiful spiral galaxy, Messier 83 , as observed with the FORS1 instrument at VLT ANTU . It is based on a composite of three images, all of which are now available from the ESO Science Data Archive , as described in this Press Release. The three frames were taken in March 1999 through three different filters: B (wavelength 429 nm; Full-Width-Half-Maximum (FWHM) 88 nm; exposure time 10 min; here rendered as blue), R (657 nm; 150 nm; 3 min; green) and I (768 nm; 138 nm; 3 min; red) during a period of 0.8 arcsec average seeing. The field shown measures about 6.8 x 6.8 arcmin and the images were recorded in frames of 2048 x 2048 pixels, each measuring 0.2 arcsec. North is up; East is left. Compare also with PR Photo 20/98 (in B/W) of a small area in this galaxy that was obtained with the VLT Test Camera in June 1998.
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Located about 15 million light-years away towards the Hydra (the sea serpent) constellation, Messier 83 is a nearby face-on barred spiral galaxy with a classic grand design form. It is the main member of a small galactic group including NGC 5253 and about 9 dwarf galaxies. Messier 83 stretches over 40 000 light-years, making it roughly 2.5 times smaller than our own Milky Way. However, in some respects, Messier 83 is quite similar to our own galaxy. Both the Milky Way and Messier 83 possess a bar across their galactic nucleus, the dense spherical conglomeration of stars seen at the centre of the galaxies.
The image is a false-colour infrared photo of the nearby barred spiral galaxy Messier 83 . It is based on the combination of three images obtained in the Ks- (wavelength 2.2 Вµm), J- (1.2 Вµm) and I-bands (0.8 Вµm), respectively.
The spiral galaxy Messier 83
Raw en:Hubble Space Telescope image of the center reagan of en:Messier 83.
If our Milky Way were to resemble this one, we certainly would be proud of our home! The beautiful spiral galaxy Messier 83 [4] is located in the southern constellation Hydra (the Water Snake) and is also known as NGC 5236 and as the Southern Pinwheel galaxy. Its distance is about 15 million light-years. Being about twice as small as the Milky Way, its size on the sky is 11x10 arcmin2.. The image show clumpy, well-defined spiral arms that are rich in young stars, while the disc reveals a complex system of intricate dust lanes. This galaxy is known to be a site of vigorous star formation.
The image is a false-colour infrared photo of the nearby barred spiral galaxy Messier 83. It shows the central area in detail.
This image of the nearby galaxy Messier 83 was taken in the infrared part of the spectrum with the HAWK-I instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope. The very fine image quality of this camera, coupled with the huge light-collecting power of the VLT, reveals vast numbers of stars within the galaxy. The images were taken in three different parts of the infrared spectrum and the total exposure time was eight and a half hours, split into more than five hundred exposures of one minute each. The field of view is about 13 arcminutes across.
Color rendering is done by by Aladin-software (2000A&AS..143...33B.)
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